Valerie

This doesn’t even have to be about cheating. If you make it about what the tech companies are taking from all of us, you’ll be surprised how many students support no-tech policies.

I finally got my hoodie today! I had completely written it off

I FINALLY GOT MY SNITCHES GET SCRITCHES HOODIE! #uglydogs

This is a lie and should not be spread.

Renee Good has a wife, who was, horrifically, in the car with her when she was executed by the government.

It is flatly untrue to assert that child has no one else in his life.

If you're truly worried about it, I would ask your IT department to invest in a quieter keyboard for you. But that's a weird thing for people to be mad at you about.

I grew up with one with the arm too!

Stop saying the son of Nicole Good has no parents left. Good's wife was IN THE CAR WITH HER, and presumably a parent to the child as well. Biological parents, sure. But parents don't have to be biological, and the widow is going through enough without *also* being utterly removed from the story.

Please cancel my free 7-day trial of 2026.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"

you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

YouTube video by Science Communication Lab Wallace Marshall (UCSF): Ten Craziest Things Cells Do

I often show this vid to classes. #8 was where I first heard about cells that go left bc of the centriole
youtu.be/ooA0J6DWWTM?...

Ooh, another example of "handedness" or orientation of centrioles

You know what? This year has actually gotten off to a pretty low-key, no breaking news, stress-free start wait nevermind

Hey I don't think you should use a website that generates CSAM on demand

Professors and teachers: Consider assigning your students some of the many AI-related suicide/murder court documents. I'm going to in my creative writing courses. This could be relevant material in any classroom in which you think AI is a factor. Which is to say, all of them.

I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen. (I think it might be 1989 but still)

A DEA agent used Louisville’s Flock camera database for immigration searches against LMPD policy A DEA agent used a Louisville Metro police officer’s login credentials to search the city’s license plate reader database using immigration-related terms.

A DEA agent used a Louisville Metro police officer’s login credentials to search the city’s Flock license plate reader database using immigration-related terms. www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...

The US has seen nearly 28,000 whooping cough cases this year. Here’s what you need to know | CNN For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.

The come back of pertussis and Measles is only the beginning of the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases in the US. This has been one of the biggest public health failures of 2025 and the competition is tough.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/h...

During one interview, the student admitted that she merely looked at the topic and then rushed together a response based on her personal feelings regarding a tangential issue that was the main thesis of the assigned article, because she was in a hurry to go see a play that evening with her friend.

This is liver failure in a bottle

We need more holidays that smell like wood products.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Oh

Haven't been on here is a hot minute but just as I suspected, all my old twitter friends are here having lively conversations. Feels like walking into the bar on a cold silent night and finding that's where all the fellowship is. Hi guys.

I’ll be randomly selecting winners for the giveaway tomorrow, so you still have a chance to enter!

We currently have TWO copies bitten by Uggi that I’ll be giving away (and also signed by me). We were trying to see if he was interested in biting a couple more, but he wasn’t.

Brown paper packages tied up with string, these are few of my favorite things... @honestdogbooks.bsky.social

A photo of a thick file folder of papers, a notebook, two pens, headphones and a coffee on a wood table

Last day before TG break, let's get some grading done

I am getting an order from Honest Dog Books! @honestdogbooks.bsky.social

One of my fave bookstores, but I love my local one a lot too.

Books! Yay!

Cloudflare's down. Look at Capybaras.

I think mine was actually supposed to be a hoodie because I remember thinking that I have too many mushing tshirts now, but I'm just glad it came